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...nuclear holocaust. He was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, while Brigid O'Hara-Forster and JoAnn Lum worked with Talbott. Presiding over the entire package was National Editor John T. Elson, who was struck by the antinuclear movement's broad base. "The early opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors." Adds Elson: "TIME's correspondents turned up local initiatives all over the country. It is a populist, popular movement that...
Reagan has sat, wondering at the irony of it all, as his briefers have traced how captured American M16s, their serial numbers clumsily altered, were shipped around the world from Viet Nam to the rebels in El Salvador. The President has observed the painstaking accumulation of evidence that Moscow's clients have used poison gas (the deadly "yellow rain") in Southeast Asia and that the Soviets have themselves employed it in Afghanistan-perhaps out of frustration that all their troops and equipment have been unable to break down a stubborn resistance by the mountain tribes to military occupation...
Arms procurement is projected to grow 16% annually through 1987, vs. a 14% rate of increase during the peak Viet Nam War years. Injecting all those dollars into defense-related industries could wind up being like installing a turbocharger on the engine of a Model T. Since military spending increases first began to tail off in the 1970s, the industry's infrastructure has seriously eroded. Hundreds of small foundries that made vital metal castings have gone bankrupt or have been forced to close by the Environmental Protection Agency (for excessive dust, smoke and chemical byproducts). Traditional smokestack industries such...
Even more worrisome is a growing lack of experienced workers in high-tech fields. Post-Viet Nam cutbacks in defense procurement sent enrollments in engineering schools plummeting. Though that is now changing, the number of graduates is still far too small to handle the projected demand. Executives at Eaton Corp.'s AIL Division frankly admit that their company will have to raid other electronics firms to find the engineers and computer experts needed to make controls for B-1 bombers. Asserts Economics Professor P.M. Scherer of Northwestern University: "This means either a bloody battle to divert engineers from other...
...America and elsewhere in the industrial world, the idea of excellence acquired in the past 20 years a sinister and even vaguely fascistic reputation. It was the Best and the Brightest, after all, who brought us Viet Nam. For a long time, many of the world's young fell into a dreamy, vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism...